Thanks to Ceri for this reminder of Lucy’s upcoming exhibition. Ed
Quay Arts are delighted to support Island Photographer Lucy Boynton in her first exhibition through the Quay’s Open Up Scheme titled Camera on Kashmir.
Carefully selected photographs from the Isle of Wight Festival and Quay Arts Live Music performances are presented in the Rope Store Gallery. Boynton captures powerful and enigmatic images that show great promise to stand the test of time.
Lucy developed a love-hate relationship with photography whilst taking photos as a child with a little point and shoot camera.
Lucy commented:
“Back then I loved the idea of photography, but the results were always disappointing, the images were soft focus, too bright and always a little later than the moment I hoped to capture and so I lost interest. But about 10 years ago my Dad brought me a dSLR and all of that changed.”
Lucy Boynton is almost completely self-taught with only one days training on Street photography in London. She said:
“I have learned through research and the work of others and by taking photos, lots of photos. In 2009, I exchanged my Canon 300D for a 5D and very slowly started to take things more seriously.
“I discovered photos from the early Isle of Wight Festivals taken by David Hurn and through him learned of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Magnum, about the ethos of reportage photography and about photographers such as Martin Parr who have made their careers and their reputations photographing every day life in this Country.
“I try to take some of the Magnum ethos with me whenever I take photographs, regardless of the subject. Using static elements to create backdrops upon which, if you are particularly lucky, the elusive decisive moment may occur.”
A love for shooting live events
Over the past few years, Lucy has developed a deep and rich understanding of the nature of Festivals and live music events. She finds them to be a source of huge effort and joy for many people and approaches them with every intention of capturing that, and as honesty as possible.
Acoustic Originals at Quay Arts and the Kashmir Café tent at the Isle of Wight Festival are examples of this, created and attended by hard working individuals and music lovers, motivated by nothing more than love of music.
With this exhibition, Lucy has selected a series of images that tell this story. They are not linear and follow no narrative but weave reportage and stage photography to provide atmosphere, so you know what happened and how it felt to be there.
More Boynton
Camera on Kashmir will be exhibited again during the Isle of Wight Festival in the Quay Arts Café. Lucy will also be showing a series of images about Rhythmtree Festival during May and June at Dimbola Lodge, Freshwater.
Camera on Kashmir exhibition in the Rope Store Gallery, Quay Arts Monday 24th February – Saturday 12th April 2014. Preview and meet the artist: Sunday 23rd February 7pm during Kashmir Fringe Music Festival and entry is free.
